VA Adaptive Sports

This week, Veterans at the 2017 National Veterans Summer Sports Clinic are challenging themselves in a variety of adaptive sporting events each day.

This year’s theme, “setting a positive course for the future,” exemplifies the intent of VA’s adaptive sports program – to provide opportunities for disabled Veterans to find or expand upon their abilities.

More than 260 Veterans will demonstrate their resilience as they participate in the 2017 National Disabled Veterans Training, Exposure and Experience Golf Tournament.

Nearly 600 of the country’s best wheelchair athletes are arriving in Cincinnati, Ohio, for the 37th National Veterans Wheelchair Games July 17–22.

Nearly 800 Veterans of age 55 and older will join volunteers and rehabilitative professionals from across the country for the 31st National Veterans Golden Age Games, scheduled May 7-11 in Biloxi, Mississippi.

Volunteers: We need you May 5-12 for the National Veterans Golden Age Games in Biloxi, Mississippi!

There was a time Air Force Veteran Miguel Davis-Dacio of the Bronx, New York, found himself as a homeless Veteran begging for help. Tuesday at the National Disabled Veterans Winter Sports Clinic, he found himself on the bottom of a ski slope for the first time, begging to do it again.

Disabled Veterans are getting properly fitted by assistive prosthesis teams for adaptive sports equipment needed to participate in activities like downhill skiing, snowmobiling, sled hockey, cross country skiing, snowshoeing and rock climbing this week at the National Disabled Veterans Winter Sports Clinic.